Krikzz Turbo Everdrive review
What is a Turbo Everdrive? The Turbo Everdrive is a printed circuit board flash drive made by Krikzz (krikzz.com) for the NEC TurboGrafx and PC Engine consoles. Krikzz, a manufacturer from Ukraine, are already famous for their amazing array of flash carts available for almost every major console ever produced.Continue Reading
RETRO Video Game Magazine Year 2 Kickstarter 3 days to go
RETRO Video Game Magazine is back for another year and needs your help. Well, actually it doesn’t because it is fully funded, but the good folks here at RGC Towers don’t want you to miss out! Only 3 days left on the RETRO Kickstarter with some great savings to beContinue Reading
Commodore Amiga: a visual Commpendium Kickstarter campaign doubles target in 6 days
Following on from the amazing Commodore 64: a visual Commpendium Kickstarter campaign, Sam Dyer of Bitmap Books is back again with a pictorial ode to Commodore’s seminal Amiga range of computers. If the Commodore 64 book is anything to go by (it is an amazing work of art) then thisContinue Reading
The Starpath (Arcadia) Supercharger for Atari 2600 – a retrospective
Atari 2600 Limitations Every console manufacturer at every generation has had a decision to make on how much memory (RAM) could be put in the console with an eye on production costs. The VCS designers back in the 1970s were severely constrained RAM-wise and could afford to add just 128Continue Reading
Beep: A Documentary History of Video Game Music & Sound
Due to circumstances beyond our control (the reason for our involuntary summer hiatus), we’re a bit late reporting on this amazing looking Kickstarter campaign, but for those who don’t yet know about here is the press release and video: Journey Through the History of Game Music with a Definitive DocumentaryContinue Reading
Atari CX2600 Heavy Sixer and Light Sixer – how to tell them apart
Since I have had a complete Atari CX2600 ‘Heavy Sixer’ in my collection, I have been getting asked regularly how you tell a ‘Heavy’ from a ‘Light’ Sixer. At first glance they look pretty similar; six switches, woodgrain, same general shape. But look a little closer and the differences inContinue Reading
Retrospecs iOS app review
I have run quite a few retro themed websites in my time and still run a couple now, you are looking at one such labour of love. As such I have often craved an easy way of producing pixelated images that look similar to those produced by the machines IContinue Reading
Ben Heck’s Sinclair ZX Spectrum mod – part 1
Everyones favourite console modder Ben Heckendorn has started a new project, to make a compact portable ZX Spectrum. Totally stoked that he has decided to mod the iconic Speccy on The Ben Heck Show but must admit to cringing whenever he says Zee X Spectrum (way too many times). IContinue Reading
Custom Game Boy Advance by 8bit Evolution
We were thrilled to be contacted a short while back by 8 bit Evolution, a US based company specializing in supplying custom modded and fully refurbished consoles to retro gaming enthusiasts. Established 3 years ago, 8 bit Evolution has 11 people on their team, all of whom are dedicated gamersContinue Reading
Commodore Format Power Pack 62 now available – 19 years on
Those wonderful guys over at www.CommodoreFormatArchive.com have carried on where Commodore Format magazine left off, 19 long years ago and released Power Pack number 62 as a download over on the Commodore Format blog. This free download features exclusive games and some of the very best C64 titles of recentContinue Reading